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Lot description
By a follower of the renowned Spanish Orientalist painter, Gabriel Morcillo Raya (1887 - 1973), this painting represents a male figure donned in an Orientalist fashion, holding a tray with fruits, likely peaches, and a vase of roses. Curiously juxtaposed in the piece are representations of various polarities: an aesthetic polarity between human subject and still life [i.e., alluding to hierarchy of subjects in academic art]; a sexual polarity between the [typically male] spectator’s gaze and now having a male figure as the object of gaze himself; a temporal polarity between antiquity and modernity [e.g., the shift from a drapery background on the left toward a seemly suburban cityscape on the right], among others. Signed “E. Rada” in the lower right corner. Oil on canvas, circa 20th to 21st century Spain. Back reveals sketches, likely of the same subject.